Binding: Paperback
Description: The first book length anthropological study of voluntary assisted dying in Switzerland Leaving is a narrative account of five people who ended their lives with assistance. Stavrianakis places his observations of the judgment to end life in this way within a larger inquiry about how to approach and understand the practice of assisted suicide which he characterizes as operating in a political legal and medical parazone adjacent to medical care and expertise. Frequently observers too rapidly integrate assisted suicide into moral positions that reflect sociological and psychological commonplaces about individual choice and its social determinants. Leaving engages with core early twentieth - century psychoanalytic and sociological texts arguing for a contemporary approach to the phenomenon of voluntary death seeking to learn from such conceptual repertoires as well as to acknowledge their limits. Leaving concludes on the anthropological question of how to account for the ethics of assistance with suicide: to grasp the actuality and composition of the ethical work that goes on in the configuration of a subject one who is making a judgment about dying with other participants and observers the anthropologist included.
Title: Leaving A Narrative Of Assisted Suicide
Author(s): Stavrianakis Anthony
Publisher: University Of California Press
Barcode: 9780520344471
Pages: 248 Pages
Publication Date: 4/28/2020
Category: Social & Cultural Anthropology, Ethnography